Gutenberg's 15th-century printing press revolution succeeded in putting software at the center of the world.

FORBES: Digital rules

It will take both skill and courage on Mr Jospin's part to press ahead with this revolution by stealth without the help of his old friend.

ECONOMIST: France��s subtle loss

Clark, Molecular Biology: Understanding the Genetic Revolution, pg. 84-85 (Academic Press, 2005).

FORBES: The Myth ... of the Myth of Junk DNA

" As Time Goes By: from the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution", Christopher Freeman, et al. Oxford University Press, 2001.

ECONOMIST: Acknowledgements

Shirky believes that we are on the crest of an ever-surging wave of democratized information: the Gutenberg printing press produced the Reformation, which produced the Scientific Revolution, which produced the Enlightenment, which produced the Internet, each move more liberating than the one before.

NEWYORKER: The Information

Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton are the authors of the New York Times bestseller The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization (Free Press).

FORBES

The printing press or the art of movable type that would trigger an explosion of Christian civilization, with the Gutenberg revolution in Germany, had been invented centuries earlier by the Chinese, but with no similar effect.

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